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    Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics
    Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics
    Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics
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    Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics

    By Max Planck

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    'Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics' is the published book of a series of lectures delivered at Columbia University by renowned physicist and Nobel Physics Prize winner Max Planck. It covers the following areas of theoretical physics: Reversibility and irreversibility, Thermodynamic equilibrium in dilute solutions, Atomistic theory of matter, Equation of state of a monatomic gas, Radiation, electrodynamics theory. Statistical theory, Principle of least work and the Principle of relativity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateJul 21, 2022
    ISBN8596547104179
    Eight Lectures on Theoretical Physics
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    Max Planck

    Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German theoretical physicist whose discovery of energy quanta won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. Planck made many contributions to theoretical physics, but his fame as a physicist rests primarily on his role as the originator of quantum theory, which revolutionized human understanding of atomic and subatomic processes.

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